LOL OMG HOLY SHIT WAIT WHAT no what the fuck are you seriously even
Bud, bear with me. Just pull your ears out of your arse for a second.
I'm saying, there's a handful of people trying to BUILD NDT UP TO BE a Bill Cosby figure, whether he's guilty OR innocent. Trying to derail his career and/or selfishly gain from the publicity generated by accusing a famous black man of a crime, especially a sex-crime. And I admit, I don't know if him being black factors into any of the motives of any of the people involved, I just suspect a possibility for reasons I hope are obvious to you (because we're a pretty racist little hemisphere.)
When Cosby's accusers and their stories started multiplying, before that, there were a lot of people saying about him what I'm saying about NDT now, more or less. Some of those people were defending him out of loyalty to what he represents, others because they were keenly aware of the white man's (and media's) fixation on the mythic black brute, a natural serial rapist, especially of white women, and wanted to be "on the right side of history" in having seen him through to his inevitable vindication. Unfortunately, I think some have gone too far in the other direction in equal parts out of pure shock and difficulty putting Cosby into perspective. Yes, he violated a good 30 or so women, but that's not equal to 30 black men raping one woman each. It's not as if their motives or their morals have been proven invalid and the stereotype proven to have "a grain of truth". But because the way our culture (and again, the media) works, it's probably hard for some not to feel like the reasoned approach as lost ground.
So then you get the folks at TYT as well as opinion columnists really straining to see flaws in Neil's thinking and statements. And there's certainly valid criticism even assuming his own accounts of those events are 100% accurate. But I'm a little more inclined to reserved judgment (for now) because his defense makes him look bad, in a way that's normally bad for guys of his time/personality, not bad like sexual-harassment bad, and definitely not rapist bad. He just doesn't sound like he's lying. And he doesn't sound like someone who needs to lose their job and face possible criminal charges. But people are essentially saying that or stopping just short of it because like Cosby's initial defenders, they want to be on the right side of history when someone who looks problematic is revealed to be problematic and dealt with accordingly.
Both sides were jumping the gun. Oh, and for the record, I lost whatever love I might've once had for Bill Cosby when he started lashing out at the black community for wearing saggy pants and being bad fathers in his rambling screeds spewing from a broken mind. I knew there was something sketchy about him at that point and when the accusations came out, I wasn't all that surprised, strangely. So admittedly, despite the comparisons I was NEVER as secure in any notion of his innocence the way I am Tyson's.
LOL OMG HOLY SHIT WAIT WHAT no what the fuck are you seriously even
Bud, bear with me. Just pull your ears out of your arse for a second.
I'm saying, there's a handful of people trying to BUILD NDT UP TO BE a Bill Cosby figure, whether he's guilty OR innocent. Trying to derail his career and/or selfishly gain from the publicity generated by accusing a famous black man of a crime, especially a sex-crime. And I admit, I don't know if him being black factors into any of the motives of any of the people involved, I just suspect a possibility for reasons I hope are obvious to you (because we're a pretty racist little hemisphere.)
When Cosby's accusers and their stories started multiplying, before that, there were a lot of people saying about him what I'm saying about NDT now, more or less. Some of those people were defending him out of loyalty to what he represents, others because they were keenly aware of the white man's (and media's) fixation on the mythic black brute, a natural serial rapist, especially of white women, and wanted to be "on the right side of history" in having seen him through to his inevitable vindication. Unfortunately, I think some have gone too far in the other direction in equal parts out of pure shock and difficulty putting Cosby into perspective. Yes, he violated a good 30 or so women, but that's not equal to 30 black men raping one woman each. It's not as if their motives or their morals have been proven invalid and the stereotype proven to have "a grain of truth". But because the way our culture (and again, the media) works, it's probably hard for some not to feel like the reasoned approach as lost ground.
So then you get the folks at TYT as well as opinion columnists really straining to see flaws in Neil's thinking and statements. And there's certainly valid criticism even assuming his own accounts of those events are 100% accurate. But I'm a little more inclined to reserved judgment (for now) because his defense makes him look bad, in a way that's normally bad for guys of his time/personality, not bad like sexual-harassment bad, and definitely not rapist bad. He just doesn't sound like he's lying. And he doesn't sound like someone who needs to lose their job and face possible criminal charges. But people are essentially saying that or stopping just short of it because like Cosby's initial defenders, they want to be on the right side of history when someone who looks problematic is revealed to be problematic and dealt with accordingly.
Both sides were jumping the gun. Oh, and for the record, I lost whatever love I might've once had for Bill Cosby when he started lashing out at the black community for wearing saggy pants and being bad fathers in his rambling screeds spewing from a broken mind. I knew there was something sketchy about him at that point and when the accusations came out, I wasn't all that surprised, strangely. So admittedly, despite the comparisons I was NEVER as secure in any notion of his innocence the way I am Tyson's.